Tag: haiku
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#Haiku (8/17/24)
8/16/24: thrift shop scurrying sparrow even thrift shops won’t buy these old paintings #haiku #micropoetry #poetry
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Gemini Solarity
Sometimes, there is a softness to sunlight. A pale glow on verdant cherry leaves. A warmth instead of a sear. A swath of cotton instead of a scouring pad. Sometimes, there is a harshness to sunlight. A blinding radiance on worn white siding. A scortch instead of warmth. A drowning in hot coals instead of…
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“Summer wind…” a #tanka (8/15/24) #TankaThursday
8/15/24: wind Summer wind “Waiting for the Sun” playing on repeat a sudden nostalgia for college days #tanka#micropoetry#poetry#TankaThursday
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#Haiku (8/15/24)
8/15/24: rainbow sun shower showing through it a rainbow #haiku #micropoetry #poetry
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A Meditation
Morning light. Sitting on a zafu atop a zabuton. Breathing in. Feeling the itchy sensations of my own skin, rheumatoid aches, and chi. Breathing out. Again, and again, as thoughts arise and fall like heartbeats. Until…just this. & then the 20-minute alarm goes off. mid-August the first oak leaf falls
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“breathing in and out…” a #tanka (8/14/24)
8/14/24: clouds breathing in and out… “a cloud of forgetting” for all my thinking & only this breathing for “a cloud of unknowing” #tanka#micropoetry#poetry#thecloudofunknowing
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#Haiku (8/14/24)
8/14/24: soulmate after waking in each other’s arms— morning coffee #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #poetry
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“a walk past…” a #tanka (8/13/24) #TankaTuesday
8/13/24: blackberries a walk past a front-yeard garden with sunflowers we salivate for the blackberries to come #tanka#micropoetry#poetry for Colleen Chesebro’s 24 Seasons Syllabic Poetry Challenge, No. 47, 8/13/24, Part II: The Beginning of Autumn
Frank J. Tassone 